[Lazarus] Bug on Lazarus Startup

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:26:22 -0200
William Oliveira Ferreira <bdexterholland at gmail.com> wrote:

> somedays ago i´ve wrote a mail about a bug on lazarus startup. I don´t
> remember the date, the subject or other thing that should help to localize
> it.
> 
> 
> The bug heappens on the Windows 7 32bits computer that i use on my work.
> When start lazarus (also after a clean uninstall, removing config files
> from appdata and the C:\lazarus)
> On startup it raises this exception:
> 
> [Window Title]
> Lazarus
> [Content]
> directory not absolute "\".
> Pressione Ok para ignorar e correr o risco de corrupção de dados.
> Cancelar para finalizar o programa.
> //hit ok to ignore and take the risk of data corruption.
> //cancel to close the program
> [OK] [Cancelar]

Can you create a backtrace?
See
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Creating_a_Backtrace_with_GDB

 
> I´m using laz version < 32000 so many days because every new laz download
> takes this error.
> 
> I don´t know why i´ve tried to add the freepascal binaries to Path
> (environment variable) and it starts ok.

Yes, the IDE searches in the 'PATH' environment variable and some
common paths.

 
> So, Why the installer doesn´t auto add the freepascal binaries to path OR
> does lazarus doesn´t search for this path?

Search for what path? 

Mattias